[Incubator] GRASS (and) PSC

[Daniel Brookshier]

Sorry for the delay. I had a bunch of email get past me when I tried  
to compartmentalize it. I love to hate email :o)

jxta.org uses this process and it has done reasonably well. I have  
seen dozens of patches that would have messed things up, but were  
caught by review.

It is indeed a bit onerous to some, but it has its benefits.

As to "small improvements" those can be covered under a single  
artifact and review. Sometimes too, there is no need for a review,  
like adding docs or some types of refactoring.

The management of patches is a bit different with svn. It is real  
easy to create a patch branch that can be reviewed and tested. Lot  
easier looking at a diff between branches in a tool than a diff patch  
file.

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On Apr 26, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Daniel Brookshier wrote:
>> Here is a recommended way of running the process that is patterned  
>> after several successful projects: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/ 
>> Managing_Changes_to_Code
>
> Daniel,
>
> I am curious if any of the existing OSGeo projects follow a process  
> like the
> one above.  With mapserver there has been some question whether we  
> should be
> creating bugzilla entries for every code change but resisters like  
> me have
> kept this from being mandated.  I *feel* like it would make it hard  
> to make
> small improvements.
>
> Also, do folks really browse through patches to see if they seem  
> sensible?
> I find patches very hard going as a rule for manual review.
>
> Also, generally for mapserver we only do RFC's and PSC votes for  
> "significant
> changes" where significant is loosely defined in RFC-1.
>
> Best regards,
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